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Deeksha Varshney

3 accepted papers

2025

Deriving Strategic Market Insights with Large Language Models: A Benchmark for Forward Counterfactual Generation

EMNLP 2025

Counterfactual reasoning typically involves considering alternatives to actual events. While often applied to understand past events, a distinct form—forward counterfactual reasoning—focuses on anticipating plausible future developments. This type of reasoning is invaluable in dynamic financial mark

2025

Towards Robust ESG Analysis Against Greenwashing Risks: Aspect-Action Analysis with Cross-Category Generalization

ACL 2025long

Sustainability reports are key for evaluating companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. To analyze these reports, NLP approaches can efficiently extract ESG insights at scale. However, even the most advanced NLP methods lack robustness against ESG content that is greenwashed…

2022

Commonsense and Named Entity Aware Knowledge Grounded Dialogue Generation

NAACL 2022long

Grounding dialogue on external knowledge and interpreting linguistic patterns in dialogue history context, such as ellipsis, anaphora, and co-reference is critical for dialogue comprehension and generation. In this paper, we present a novel open-domain dialogue generation model which effectively uti…